 | Thomas Fourness Wilson - India - 1858 - 244 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...Sir James Outram, GCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in due course for the orders of His Royal Highness... | |
 | Thomas Fourness Wilson - 1858 - 252 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...laid before Major-General Sir James Outram, GCB, who Las promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in due course for the... | |
 | Charles Ball - India - 1858 - 750 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...have been laid before Major-general Sir James Outram, KCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in due course... | |
 | History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...promise, and threat, was alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to tho handful of Europeans who, in all probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion." Well might General Sir James Outram say, in a Division Order issued by him, that, " The annals of war... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...particularly distinguished themselves, have been laid before Major General Sir Jair.es Outram, GCB, who haa promised to promote them. Those of the European force... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 668 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat, was alternately resorted to in vain to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion.' MB COLVIN, Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces. CHAPTER XX, MINOR CONFLICTS: SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat, was alternately resorted to in vain to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who, in all probability, would have been sacrifieed by their desertion,' MR COLT», Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces. CHAPTER XX,... | |
 | 1860 - 1518 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to, in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans who,...themselves have been laid before Major-General Sir J. Outram, GCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in... | |
 | sir James Outram (1st bart.) - 1860 - 434 pages
...effort, persuasion, promise, and thi-eat, was alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who,...particularly distinguished themselves have been laid before Major-Goneral Sir James Outram, GCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 796 pages
...every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them from the handful of Europeans who, in all probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion." This praise must of course be confined to those native troops who fell at their post during the siege,... | |
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... Lieutenant Aitken, to a most galling fire of round shot and musketry, which materially decreased their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately... 
